...a typically hit-and-miss Sandler vehicle that benefits substantially from its star’s affable efforts...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2024

Sandler's only saving grace with Mr. Deeds may be that the majority of his fans are too young to know of, or just don't care about, Frank Capra or movie masterpieces...

| Nov 13, 2019

Pretty awful, but teen Sandler fans may like it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

The end result isn't dreadful, but it is patchy.

| May 28, 2008

The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.

| Jun 24, 2006

Sandler barely expends any energy trotting out the "average dude who shakes up stodgy high society" schtick, and director Steven Brill and scripter Tim Herlihy follow lazy suit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Anyone with an IQ over 85 should stay away.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Peter Gallagher must've been hard up for cash.

| Feb 1, 2004

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| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2004

This is a remake which will vaguely satisfy the Sandler faithful and have Capra fans gritting their teeth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

How could Adam Sandler, of all people, remake Capra? Well, shoddily, as it happens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2003

...Perpetuates [Sandler's] penchant for idiotic, schoolboy humor, misunderstood-nice-guy characters, and plots which insult the intelligence of anyone over 12.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The only saving grace about Mr. Deeds is its functioning as a wise and timely cliche': money can't buy everything--especially for a clunky comedy with no spirit or no spark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2003

The film delivers as promised on most levels; however, it does help to be an Adam Sandler fan to begin with.

| Original Score: B | Dec 17, 2002

A remake so bad it will make your gums bleed. Orphanage fires are funnier.

| Nov 19, 2002

When you've already made something as execrable and universally loathed as Little Nicky, why stop there?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 3, 2002

A very stupid film that's almost watchable but doesn't really have any reason to exist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2002

No amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper [Sandler] ain't.

| Oct 21, 2002

The plot is moth-eaten, the jokes lame, the action sequences idiotic to disgusting, and the whole adds up (or subtracts down) to a complete waste of time.

| Oct 21, 2002

There's a price to pay for the guilty pleasure Steven Brill's film affords -- a relentless process of dumbing down that tells the audience it's cool to be a doofus.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2002